learnPAYROLL Launches Online Payroll Skills Test to Ensure the Highest Calibre of Payroll Professionals

learnPAYROLL, the payroll training specialist, have launched their new Online Payroll Skills Test to ensure organisations are getting the most from their existing payroll department as well as verifying whether job applicants possess up-to-date payroll skills.

The online skills test simplifies the recruitment process by enabling employers to evaluate the competency of job seekers. The test determines whether applicants have the requisite payroll skills to fulfil their role and removes any uncertainty about a candidate’s actual skills.

The online skills assessment also has the added benefit of enabling employers to check the technical competence of their existing payroll staff and subsequently the opportunity to act quickly and provide an adequate training programme to cover any shortfalls and gaps in their knowledge of payroll legislation.

This can potentially save organisations thousands of pounds in recruitment costs and can also prevent the heavy fines incurred when payroll professionals make mistakes, for example when underpaying on tax & NI and providing an incorrect employment status. By testing candidates at an early stage, firms can save both time and money by identifying and recruiting the right people at the outset.

The skills test consists of 30 questions selected randomly from learnPAYROLL’s comprehensive database of hundreds. Advantages of the skills test are:

• It’s available online at any time
• It’s easy to use and administer and candidates will only need a calculator to complete the test
• Having three levels of skills test
• Level 1 - Basic knowledge of tax and NI
• Level 2 - Intermediate skills including statutory, payments, court orders and more advanced tax and NI issues
• Level 3 - Advanced skills including tax year end and expenses and benefits
• Test results can be produced immediately by email to the organisation

Ken Gurr, payroll education director of The Learn Centre, said: “Employing and retaining the best staff has become increasingly important during these financially turbulent times. Our Online Payroll Skills Test provides employers with the facility to test out potential and existing payroll staff and to ensure that their skills are up-to-date with the latest legislation.

“Many organisations have good procedures in place for selecting and interviewing job applicants but do not have the ability to test whether these applicants have the necessary knowledge needed to do their job efficiently. In the same vein, organisations also need a guarantee that their existing payroll staff is working to its full potential. It is essential that any job holder is fully trained in order for them to fulfil their role effectively.”

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Rebecca Ribbans/ Jo Victoria Russell
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About HRD & Payroll Solutions:
HRD & Payroll Solutions have been delivering highly effective training to an extremely loyal client base for over twenty years. Over 7,500 different organisations have benefited from their extensive array of payroll and e-learning HR courses, face-to-face courses delivered nationwide in easily accessibe venues, as well as bespoke in-house workshops.

What HRD & Payroll Solutions offer:

• learnHR: Launched in September 2008, learnHR’s professional qualifications are available online, face-to-face and can be specifically tailored for individual clients as in-house workshops. Courses offered include: HR in Practice, HR Management, Employment Law in Practice, Health & Safety for HR Managers, Managing for High Performance and Change, Managing Diversity, HR Data – Adding Value to Business, Payroll for HR, Determining Employment Status and Building and Managing Successful Teams.
• learnPAYROLL: The Payroll Solutions Specialist Course for Autumn 2008 include the folowing five high quality essential professional training courses delivered by experts: Determining Employment Status, Understanding Pension Schemes and NI - Now and the Future, Developing and Implementing Salary Sacrifice & Benefits, Termination & Redundancy Payments and Payroll for HR and Senior Managers.
• Annual HR & Payroll Conference: In its 15th year, HRD & Payroll Solutions’ Annual HR & Payroll Conference will take place over two days in March 2009 in a choice of two locations; Stratford-upon-Avon and Tenerife. The conference will provide delegates with an opportunity to network with fellow professionals as well as offering a highly informative programme, including the latest updates on issues affecting their work.
• HR and Payroll Solutions Consultancy Services: HRD & Payroll Solutions offer the service of their experienced tutors to share their specialist HR and payroll knowledge on a particular issue or on-going project. Whatever the requirements, one can be assured of their integrity, honesty, confidentiality, flexibility and value.
  
  

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